Woodland road maintenance focus of City Council study session

The city's roadway maintenance program, including upcoming repair projects, will be studied at Tuesday's Woodland City Council meeting.

The city's roadway network is its largest infrastructure investment consisting of more than 400-lane miles of roads with an estimated replacement value of more than $400 million, according to the transportation infrastructure division in a report.

"Recent budgets have allocated approximately $1.5 million toward the repair and maintenance of the roadway system," said Principal Civil Engineer Katie Wurzel in the report. "Given the size of this asset and limitations in funding, there are significant fiscal implications to funding and management of the city's streets and roadway network."

Tuesday's study session will review the roadway network, funding and maintenance strategies as well as the accomplishments of the program since the establishment of Measure E sales tax funding in 2006 and the resulting benefit to roadway conditions.

The 2012-13 Measure E spending report, which ended June 30, 2013, shows that just more than $7 million has been spent on roads with the local tax, with close to $17 million allocated through the life span of the measure, which sunsets in 2018.

During the 2012-13 fiscal year reports show $439,371 was spent on roads from Measure E monies.

Topics such as the pavement program and conditions, funding sources and priorities, achievements to date and future planning and funding will be discussed.

"The presentation is intended to provide the City Council with information regarding the condition, funding and management of city's roadway infrastructure to help inform future long-range planning related to this critical infrastructure asset," Wurzel added.